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(Auction)Okito's Checker Box Brings $12,000 in Magic Auction
The hand-painted checker cabinet by Theo Bamberg, a.k.a. Okito, sold for $12,000 (est. $7000/9000).
The interest in a photograph of French magician Alexander Herrmann was surprising to Fajuri. It sold for $5760, way above the estimate of $1500/1800. The cabinet card portrait was signed on the back by Adelaide Herrmann, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
There are a lot of pictures in this month’s selection, some of them very expensive ones, but added to the mix are some fine old German glasses and a German broadsword, a Bellarmine jug, some wall lights, an odd assortment of items from a “Gentleman’s Library” and what ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Opens for $3.5 Million
The 8" cannonball that missed killing Admiral David Farragut aboard the U.S.S. Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay when it fell intact onto the deck of the ship brought $5332.50.
Congressional silver medal commemorating the Jeannette Arctic expedition, 1879-82, given to team member Herbert Leach, $21,330.
A collection of about 50 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)February Auctions at Sotheby's and Freeman's
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Freeman’s
Two auction houses on the East Coast held moderately priced sales in advance of Valentine’s Day. Sotheby’s Important Jewels auction, held in New York City on February 5, included jewelry with lower estimates than its Magnificent Jewels or Noble Jewels sales would contain. ... (Read More)
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